Beloved-宠儿

作者：Toni Morrison

书名：Beloved《宠儿》

中文简介：《宠儿》是莫里森所有作品中最受读者喜爱的作品,赛斯与女儿丹芙被家中频频“闹鬼”的事件困扰。与此同时，渐渐走近赛斯生活的黑奴保罗在家门外遇见了一位叫“宠儿”的年轻女子。宠儿的到来扰乱了赛斯与保罗的关系，在保罗的再三追问下赛斯说出了多年的秘密。得知秘密后保罗因难以理解赛斯的残忍作为而离开，而赛斯却渐渐开始认为时常出现的“宠儿”便是曾被自己割喉而前来索爱的女儿。

宠儿仿佛是赛斯内疚与歉意的化身，赛斯为宠儿倾其所有的行为就像是一段自我救赎的历程。在所有的忘却与和解之后，故事的结局最终回归温馨，可那份贯穿了整个故事的忧伤则挥之不去。

英文简介：Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. 

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. 

Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.